Meet the Newest Dinosaur: Thunder-Thighs

By Christopher Shea

Paleontologists have identified a new sauropod—one of those large, slow-moving plant-eaters, in the same family as Diplodocus—that lived during the Early Cretaceous. Partial remains of two specimens had been found in Utah.

It’s been dubbed Brontomerus mcintoshi. Brontomerus translates as “thunder thighs,” a reference to what seem to have been massive upper legs.

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Another imaginative name "thunder thighs" in an imaginative science—wait—NEWSFLASH:

New York Times science writer Nicolas Wade wrote: "Anthropologists have been thrown into turmoil about the nature and future of their profession after a decision by the American Anthropological Association at its recent annual meeting to strip the word “science” from a statement of its long-range plan."